PALOMA Qualified for IEM Katowice 2024

Today, the controversial Polish team under the tag PALOMA won ESL Mistrzostwa Polski Autumn 2023, thereby securing a slot at Intel Extreme Masters Katowice 2024. Previously, other professional players had raised complaints about the players in this lineup.

In the final of ESL Mistrzostwa Polski Autumn 2023, PALOMA defeated 9INE with a score of 2:0 (Ancient 16:13, Nuke 13:9) in maps, ensuring their place at IEM Katowice 2024.

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For their victory at ESL Mistrzostwa Polski Autumn 2023, the team received:

• $6,258
  A direct invite to Intel Extreme Masters Katowice 2024
  It’s noteworthy that this is the second time they have qualified for this championship through regional qualifiers, but last time at the LAN event, they only won 19 rounds across three played maps.

Previously, the captain of the Monte team, Viktor “sdy” Orudjev, accused these players of cheating, although they were playing under the tag Permitta at the time.

sdy stated:

We won European pro league, finally this end i can type. You as a t.o. should never invite this paloma/permitta team to your tournament. If you analize their demos its obvius for any reasonable player that they are cheating. I hope to never play against them. 1/2

— 🇺🇦 Viktor Orudzhev 🇺🇦 (@somedieyoungCS) March 7, 2023

• olimp
• moonwalk
• Flayy
• kisserek
  However, there’s no 100% proof that they are playing with cheats or anything like that. But if you look at their demos, everything becomes clear, and it’s puzzling why ESL hasn’t banned these players yet.